She is the Sea: a poetry pamphlet with one shoreline essay and one riverbank essay: 2019

About Helen BillinghurstPhil Smith

Helen Billinghurst is a multidisciplinary artist educator researcher and writer. With a background as a film maker she now works within the expanded fields of painting and drawing. Her recent doctoral research at the University of Plymouth explored the intersection between studio practice and aesthetic walking. She currently lectures at Plymouth College of Art and her research interests include the performance of making site-specificity and embodied process. In 2014 Helen was resident artist for six months at High Cross House in Dartington Devon. Recent solo exhibitions include ''''Crossing England'''' (Arial Centre Totnes 2016) ''''Embodied Cartographies'''' (Walcot Gallery Bath Fringe Festival curated by Fay Stevens 2016) ''''English Diagrams'''' (Royal William Yard Plymouth 2018) and ''''Walking Diagrams'''' (Walking''''s New Movements Conference University of Plymouth 2019). Other recent commissions include an article for the catalogue of ''''Dear Christine'''' (a touring exhibition about the life of Christine Keeler by women artists curated by Fionn Wilson 2019). Collaborating with Phil Smith as Crab & Bee Helen makes walks performances poetry and exhibitions. They have worked together on an exhibition and walking project called ''''Plymouth Labyrinth'''' (funded by Arts Council England) and a residency at Teats Hill slipway (for Take Apart Plymouth 2019). They are writing a new book The Pattern based on walks across Southern England and Wales. Dr. Phil Smith is a performance-maker writer and academic researcher specialising in work around walking site-specificity mythogeographies and counter-tourism. With artist Helen Billinghurst he is one half of Crab & Bee who have recently completed an exhibition and walking project called ''''Plymouth Labyrinth (funded by Arts Council England) a short walking project in the Isles of Scilly and a residency at Teats Hill slipway. They are currently engaged in a series of walks across the UK researching their forthcoming book The Pattern (2020). With Tony Whitehead and photographer John Schott Phil recently published Guidebook for an Armchair Pilgrimage with Triarchy Press. He is currently developing a ''''subjectivity-protective movement practice'''' with Canada-based choreographer Melanie Kloetzel. With Claire Hind and Helen Billinghurst he co-organised the 2019 ''''Walking''''s New Movements'''' conference at the University of Plymouth. As company dramaturg and co-writer for TNT Theatre (Munich) he most recently premiered ''''Free Mandela'''' co-authored with TNT''''s artistic director Paul Stebbings about the end of apartheid in South Africa. Paul and Phil are presently working on a book about TNT Theatre''''s transformation from tiny experimental theatre company to global touring organisation. Phil is a member of site-based arts collective Wrights & Sites who recently published The Architect-Walker (2018). As well as Walking Stumbling Limping Falling (2017) with poet Alyson Hallett Phil''''s publications include Making Site-Specific Theatre and Performance (Red Globe/Palgrave Macmillan 2018) Rethinking Mythogeography (2018) (with US photographer John Schott) Anywhere (2017) A Footbook of Zombie Walking and Walking''''s New Movement (2015) On Walking and Enchanted Things (2014) Counter-Tourism: The Handbook (2012) and Mythogeography (2010). He is an Associate Professor (Reader) at the University of Plymouth.